“Barack Obama is a talented man — and by the way he’s an American, he’s a Christian — his problem isn’t the fact that he was born here or what his faith is,” said Bush in a speech here. “His problem is that he’s a progressive liberal who tears down anybody that disagrees with him.”

At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Thursday, Trump did not correct an audience member who said that Obama is a Muslim and “not even an American.”

Asked by a reporter after his remarks whether Trump should apologize, Bush said: “I spoke to it. I spoke to it there.”